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Woman Relaxing after Her Bath

Kitagawa Utamaro

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman with black hair pulled up, adorned with three wooden sticks with a flower on the left side, and two more sticks on the right side. Her hair is thick and styled upwards. She has a beige kimono with a brown and beige checkered collar. The woman wipes her face with a beige towel held in her right hand, her face turned to the left with her eyes closed. The background is beige with some Japanese characters on the right side and two circular seals, one red and one beige.

Artwork details

Date:
1790s
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
407 × 624 px
Museum record:
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